According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 78.7% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women. In two, the ratio was 50:50 (Switzerland and British Virgin Islands), and in the remaining seven – Tonga, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Latvia, and Hong Kong – women were slightly more likely to be victims of homicides compared to males.[1] A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for about 98 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide[2] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below). The highest male homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Honduras and highest female homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was in Lesotho.

Table

  • Rate: The homicide rate is per year per 100,000 inhabitants.

Charts

Homicide Victims per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)
Homicide Rate per Year by Country and Gender (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013)

References

  1. 1 2 UNDOC Homicide Statistics 2013 used tables: Homicide counts and rates & Percentage of male and female homicide victims Retrieved May-31-2014
  2. 1 2 Gibbons, Jonathan (2013). "Global Study on Homicide" (PDF). www.unodc.org. United National Office of Drugs and Crime (Vienna).
  3. "dp-intentional-homicide-victims | dataUNODC". dataunodc.un.org. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  4. http://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Bilteni/2019/NUM_00_2018_TB_0_BS.pdf
  5. "Homicide in Canada, 2021". Statistics Canada. 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  6. "Novi list".
  7. "Vital Statistics". CDC. 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  8. "Pew Research Center". Pew Research Center. 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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